Barry Flanagan
(Wales, England 1941–2009)
- Title
- Hole in the sea
- Year
- 1969
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- 2 gelatin silver photographs
- Dimensions
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top: 16.2 x 23.2cm image/sheet; bottom: 15.7 x 23.2cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed u.l. verso each photograph, black felt tip pen "Barry Flanagan/ ...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 2011
- Accession number
- 394.2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
These two photographs are stills from Flanagan’s 1969 film ‘Hole in the sea’, made for Gerry Schum’s television exhibition ‘Land art’. Filmed on the beach at Scheveningen, The Netherlands, Flanagan buried a hollow plastic cylinder in the sand during a rising tide filming the mysterious hole that appeared before the waves finally engulfed the cylinder.
